I FEEL YOUR PAIN, VITO – Favorite moment on this week's Sopranos: Joseph Gannascoli's Vito mentally counting the minutes 'til lunchtime (and holding off from looking at his watch – as if not looking would somehow make the minutes speed faster) at his one-and-only day of real manual work. He was like a high school kid on his first summer job – you couldn't help but empathize with the big ol' sociopathic lug . . .

If this blog does not discuss a specific political issue or event, it is not because this writer finds said event politically inconvenient to acknowledge - it's simply because he's scatterbrained and irresponsible.